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Book Physical Components of the Shear Strength of Saturated Clays

Download or read book Physical Components of the Shear Strength of Saturated Clays written by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Physical Components of the Shear Strength of Saturated Clays

Download or read book Physical Components of the Shear Strength of Saturated Clays written by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period 1933-1936 the writer was engaged in research on the physical properties of clays at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, under the general direction of Professor K. Terzaghi. The results of this research were published as a thesis in 1937, and abstracts thereof were published as conference papers in 1936 and 1938. The writer has had but little opportunity personally to perform additional experimental investigations of the shear strength of clays, and this paper is to a large extent a reevaluation and restatement of some of the results of the above-mentioned research. The paper deals primarily with the physical components of the shear strength of remolded, saturated clays and with the various factors which influence these components. The results of subsequent research by others are taken into consideration and summarized when appropriate, but the paper is not a complete review of the very extensive and important research on shear strength of saturated clays performed during the last twenty years. The sources of error in the tests performed by the writer are discussed, and emphasis is placed on clarification of the assumptions and limitations relating to the conclusions and formerly proposed criteria for the shear strength of saturated clays. New data and illustrations are included, but many figures are copies of simplifications of the original figures in the 1937 publication.

Book Laboratory Shear Testing of Soils

Download or read book Laboratory Shear Testing of Soils written by American Society for Testing and Materials and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1964 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foundation Engineering

Download or read book Foundation Engineering written by Ralph B. Peck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1991-01-16 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers properties of subsurface materials, types of foundations and methods of construction, selection of foundation type and basis for design, and design of foundations and earth-retaining structures.

Book Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils  Two Volume Set

Download or read book Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils Two Volume Set written by T.S. Tan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the first two volumes, published in 2002, volumes 3 and 4 of Characterisation and Engineering Properties of Natural Soils review laboratory testing, in-situ testing, and methods of characterising natural soil variability, illustrated by actual site data. Less well-documented soil types are highlighted and the various papers take i

Book An Introduction to Soil Mechanics and Foundations

Download or read book An Introduction to Soil Mechanics and Foundations written by C. R. Scott and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is mainly intended to meet the needs of undergraduate students of Civil Engineering. In preparing the first edition of this book, I had two principal aims: firstly to provide the student with a description of soil behavior-and of the effects of the clay minerals and the soil water on such behavior-which was rather more detailed than is usual in an elementary text, and secondly to encourage him to look critically at the traditional methods of analysis and design. The latter point is important, since all such methods require certain simplifying assumptions without which no solution is generally possible. Serious errors in design are seldom the result of failure to understand the methods as such. They more usually arise from a failure to study and understand the geology of the site, or from attempts to apply analytical methods to problems for which the implicit assumptions make them unsuitable. In the design of foundations and earth structures, more than in most branches of engineering, the engineer must be continually exercising his judgment in making decisions. The analytical methods cannot relieve him of this responsibility but properly used, they should ensure that his judgment is based on sound knowledge and not on blind intuition. I hope that the book will prove to be of use to students when their courses are over, and help to bridge the awkward gap between theory and practice.

Book The Basic Sinkage Equations and Bearing Capacity Theories

Download or read book The Basic Sinkage Equations and Bearing Capacity Theories written by Mikael Juul Hvorslev and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deformation and Progressive Failure in Geomechanics

Download or read book Deformation and Progressive Failure in Geomechanics written by A. Asaoka and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-10-23 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive failure has been a classical problem in the field of geotechnical engineering and has attracted considerable attention in connection with slope stability and foundation problems. It is associated with strain localization or shear banding and is also related to damage in material structures. As knowledge of the progressive failure mechanism increases, it is now necessary to establish effective communications between researchers and engineers. The International Symposium on Deformation and Progressive Failure in Geomechanics provided an opportunity for discussing recent advances in this area. A total of 136 papers were contributed from 22 countries. As well as these, the symposium proceedings also contain 8 interim technical reports on the subject by the members of the Asian Technical Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and the Japanese Geotechnical Society National Committee on Progressive Failure in Geo-structures.

Book Research Conference on Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils  Sponsored by the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division  ASCE   Papers and Reports

Download or read book Research Conference on Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils Sponsored by the Soil Mechanics and Foundations Division ASCE Papers and Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advances in Geotechnical Engineering

Download or read book Advances in Geotechnical Engineering written by R. J. Jardine and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main body of the first volume is taken up by five major keynote papers written by a team of international experts, that survey the enormous advances that have taken place in geotechnical engineering since Skempton's pioneering early work. The second volume contains more than 80 articles that report recent research and advances in practice from around the world. The papers focus on the broad range of geotechnical issues, that most interested Professor Skempton, and are grouped under the headings of: - Soil behaviour, characterisation and modelling - Foundations - Slopes and embankments - Ground performance - The influence of geology on civil engineering.

Book History of Progress

Download or read book History of Progress written by W. Allen Marr and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 2392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Geo-Institute of ASCE This collection of 78 historical papers provides a wide view of the rich body of literature that documents the development of fundamental concepts geotechnical engineering and their application to practical problems. From the highly theoretical to the elegantly practical, the papers in this one-of-a-kind collection are significant for their contributions to the geotechnical engineering literature. Among the writings of more than 60 geotechnical engineering pioneers are several by Karl Terzaghi, widely known as the father of soil mechanics, R.R. Proctor, Arthur Casagrande, and Ralph Peck. Many of these papers contain information as useful today as when they were first written. Others provide great insight into the origins and development of the field and the thought processes of its leaders.

Book Slope Stability Engineering

Download or read book Slope Stability Engineering written by J.C. Jiang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers covers a wide range of relevant issues and aspects of slope stability engineering from both practical and scientific points of view from the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Slope Stability Engineering : Is--Shikoku'99 : Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, 8-11 November, 1999.

Book Unsaturated Soils  Two Volume Set

Download or read book Unsaturated Soils Two Volume Set written by Eduardo E. Alonso and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades the development of unsaturated soil mechanics has been remarkable, resulting in momentous advances in fundamental knowledge, testing techniques, computational procedures, prediction methodologies and geotechnical practice. The advances have spanned the full spectrum of theory and practice. In addition, unsaturated materials exhibiting complex behaviour such as residual soils, swelling soils, compacted soils, collapsing soils, tropical soils and solid wastes have been integrated in a common understanding of shared behaviour features. It is also noteworthy that unsaturated soil mechanics has proved surprisingly fruitful in expanding to other neighbouring areas such as swelling rocks, rockfill mechanics, and freezing soils. As a consequence, geotechnical engineering involving unsaturated soils can be now approached from a more rational and systematic perspective leading towards an improved and more effective practice. Unsaturated Soils contains the papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Unsaturated Soil (Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 September 2010). They report significant advances in the areas of unsaturated soil behaviour, testing techniques, constitutive and numerical modelling and applications. The areas of application include soil-atmosphere interaction, foundations, slopes, embankments, pavements, geoenviromental problems and emerging topics. They are complemented by three keynote lectures and three general reports covering general issues of modelling, testing and applications. Unsaturated Soils is a comprehensive record of the state-of-the art in unsaturated soil mechanics and a sound basis for further progress in the future. The two volumes will serve as an essential reference for academics, researchers and practitioners interested in unsaturated soils.

Book Dynamic Bearing Capacity of Soils

Download or read book Dynamic Bearing Capacity of Soils written by Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: